We hear a lot these days about "Critical Race Theory." I have a theory about "Critical Race Theory." It's that very few people using that term know what "Critical Race Theory" really is, nor do they care. It's just a handy boogeyman to scare others…a way of saying, "Your children are being indoctrinated by being taught something about race that you don't want them to believe." The truth or falsity of the "theory" doesn't matter.
"Indoctrinated" is also a scary term. "In schools these days, your children are being indoctrinated about how words should be spelled or how to add one number to another and arrive at a third number."
And as Eric Boehlert points out, the press is writing a lot about "Critical Race Theory" without pointing out that (a) no one using the term seems to define it and (b) "Critical Race Theory" is really not being taught anywhere.